Posted on 06/03/2016 1:29:28 AM PDT by Jacquerie
Democrats just love democracy. Who could possibly oppose democracy? Didn’t progressive icon Woodrow Wilson inform the nation that the purpose of the United States was to make the world safe for democracy? What reasonable person could be against all power to the people?
I am, and I am in good company. Our framing generation had enough experience with overly democratic state governments to figure out that majoritarian abuse of minorities was just as harmful and dangerous to freedom as the executive tyranny of George III. Benjamin Rush famously said that while the state constitutions of 1776-1780 barred the front door to executive tyranny, they left the back door wide open to democratic tyranny.
The Constitution of 1787 secured our unalienable rights through its limitation of the democratic impulse via vertical division of power between the new government and states, as well as horizontally among the three branches of the federal government. Equal participation of the people and states in congress translated into that which the world had not seen in millennia, a generally stable republic that respected the people’s lives, liberty and estates.
Modern Leftist tyranny rests on the foundation of a popularly elected congress. Once the states were booted from the senate, ALL national power was certain to eventually concentrate, as it has, in Washington, DC. With so much power so close at hand, it was only a matter of time before the rise of a demagogue with despotic ambition and enormous will. While FDR was the first, Obama puts FDR to shame.
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OOPS (misread schedule). Thanks for the post and all of your work on the Article V Blog, Jacquerie. Education/how-did-we-get-to-this-point BUMP!
I appreciate your support. Gotta run.
EXCELLENT SITE!
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